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Saturday, September 1, 2012

September Sketch Challenge

Welcome to September, everyone! We're going to start the month with a new sketch challenge for you. This month we are once again using a sketch created by Nadia Cannizzo.

Now it's your turn to use this sketch as inspiration to create a layout for our challenge.

This challenge is open to everyone. You do not need to be a member of C'est Magnifique Kits
to participate in the sketch challenge and you may use any supplies you wish.

But, since we are a kit club, there is an added incentive to use one of our kits to create your sketch layout (which I will explain below).

We will be offering 2 prizes this month. One winner from all entries
(selected randomly) will

receive a large prize package. The winner will also be able to purchase anything

from our Store and have it shipped free with their prize package - anywhere in the world!

Here's a look at what
Leslie has put together for this month's prize.

Because we are a kit club, our second prize is $10 gift certificate to the C'est Magnifique Store
that will be randomly awarded to someone who obviously uses one of our kits to create their layout. This is our way of saying "thank you" to our members.

We will also be "featuring" 5 layouts from the submissions for this sketch.

What do you have to do to enter our sketch challenge?

1. You must become a follower of our blog. If you're already a follower, we thank you!

It's easy to become follower -see the left sidebar.

2. Complete a layout using the sketch, and add it to our blog using the Inlinkz tool below. Please use the link to your blog post where you have uploaded your layout (not your general blog address).

Deadline for entering the sketch challenge is midnight, September 30 (US time).

Just look at my little girl! A perfect view..lost in her own little
world..the perfect picture of innocence! I turned around with the camera
in my hands and that's just what I thought when I saw her like that and
that is why this is the title of my layout. Now here is one more
colour combination from this amazing collection. Orange! A pretty and
feminine light orange,

For the sketch challenge I used this lovely recent photo of my Mother-in-Law together
with my youngest daughter, Cami. "Granny" is very trendy and even has purple streaks
in her hair - aged 72! She is very "artsy" & loves to dress real trendy so I made a page that reflected her wonderfully bohemian personality.

As well
as misting, masking & dripping the delicious "Lindy's Stamp Gang"
mists all over the place I also had fun creating my own little
mannequin. I used the Prima packaging as my base, applied one of the
Kaisercraft mannequin rub-ons then "dressed it up" using some of the
lace (misted bright pink - Granny's favourite color!), made a belt from
the resin roses that came with the Prima flourish & a choker
necklace made from bling from the flourish too!
We're off to visit Granny soon so I'm framing this layout for her & I know she'll love it!!

I wanted to tone down the background damask paper so I used a credit
card to apply some gesso, then sprayed it with the mist in the add-on.
Right after spraying it I rolled paper towels across the paper so it
would blend into the background instead of looking like mist.
This is a
photo of my mother that I've been wanting to scrap for a while.
The
colors in her shirt were perfect with this kit.

Check back tomorrow when I'll show you one more layout for our sketch challenge. Design team member Joyce Lawrence created an awesome tutorial to go with her layout!